What Drives Financial Markets : Making Sense of Financial Market Forces

Brian Kettell, MSc, BSc.Econ has many years experience working in financial markets and banking. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he has worked for Citibank, American Express, Arab Banking Corporation (Vice President) and Shearson Lehman (Vice President). This experience has since been applied in providing training courses on international financial markets. He has delivered training courses on the markets for a variety of organizations including: Chase Manhattan Bank, Nomura, Morgan Stanley, Kleinwort Benson, Banque Indosuez and The Euromoney Institute of Finance. He is now Senior Lecturer at London University and a visiting Professor of Finance at several French Business Schools. He has published widely, over 80 articles, in numerous journals including Central Banking, The Banker and The Securities Journal. His previous books include The International Debt Game (with George Magnus, Chief Economist, Warburg Dillion Read), Businessman's Guide to the Foreign Exchange Market, Monetary Economics, The Finance of International Business, Gold and The Foreign Exchange Handbook (with Steve Bell, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank). In addition he has published a large number of case studies on financial markets.